The UN secretary general urged a
redoubling of the Astana talks process
initiated by Russia, Iran, and Turkey to
end conflict in Syria. This is while
Turkey has
reportedly stepped up supplies of
weapons to militants in Idlib, the
northwest province under the control of
extremist factions.

Furthermore, the
US and other NATO powers, Britain and
France, are threatening to launch
large-scale military strikes on Syria in
the event of the Assad government forces
moving ahead with a planned offensive.

Guterres
warned the military operation to
wrest control of the area from illegally
armed groups would cause a “bloodbath.”
He urged a “non-military”
solution to the conflict. He needs to
get real.

This amounts to the UN using a call
for diplomacy to tie the Syrian Army’s
hands behind its back. Surely, the
priority for Guterres is to condemn the
use of violence by the US, Britain, and
France against a sovereign nation, which
has the legal right to assert control
over its territory being held by
foreign-backed terrorist groups.

Vasily Nebenzia, Russia’s ambassador to
the UN, says that the Syrian Army and
Russian allies are trying to ensure minimal
civilian casualties. But, he added, there
can be no peaceful settlement to the
conflict until all extremist groups are
eliminated.

Recall that any time the Syrian Army
moves to liberate cities and towns under the
siege of militants, UN bureaucrats always
join the gallery of Western governments and
media depicting the operations as wanton
violence against civilians.

What the UN, the US, and its allies are
doing is a cynical media maneuver to
delegitimize the Syrian government and its
sovereign right to eradicate armed groups.
The militants are not “moderate rebels”
as the Western media pretend. They are the
most heinous terrorist brigades which have
held civilian populations under a reign of
terror.

A medley of names – Al-Nusra, Hayat
Tahrir al Sham, Ahrar al Sham, Jaysh al
Islam, Islamic State, and so on, cannot hide
the fact that they are all affiliated with
the original Al-Qaeda terrorist network.

Recall, too, the decisive battle for East
Aleppo in December 2016. When the Syrian
Army and its Russian allies were moving to
recapture Syria’s second major city, the
Western media was screaming denunciations of
supposed war crimes, barbarity, and even
Nazi-like genocide against civilians. Again,
UN officials were lending credence to
claims by Washington, London, and Paris
that the Syrian-Russian offensive on East
Aleppo was going to lead to a bloodbath.

Fortunately, the Syrian and Russian
authorities ignored the histrionics and
proceeded to liberate East Aleppo in short
order. Thousands of civilians rejoiced at
their release from years-long siege by the
Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists who subjected
them to unspeakable cruelty.

Those Western-media-friendly “rebels”
fled to what is now their last remaining
stronghold, Idlib.

There are estimated to be 10,000 fighters
among a civilian population of three
million.

As Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
Maria Zakharova
points out, many civilians are held
hostage as human shields by the terrorist
brigades, as in earlier sieges, such as East
Aleppo. It is therefore a moral, legal, and
military imperative for the Syrian Army to
salvage its civilians from criminal
captivity.

Several UN Security Council resolutions
mandate the elimination of the terrorist
groups in Syria. Doublethink or duplicity,
some of those organizations are even
proscribed as terrorists by Western
governments.

The criminal gangs are making their last
stand, refusing to lay down their weapons.
Syrian government forces are therefore
entitled to vanquish those militants who
have run amok for the past eight years,
destroying millions of families, centuries
of cultural heritage, and reducing the
once-developed republic to ruins.

Nikki Haley, the insufferably arrogant US
ambassador to the UN, this week said:
“Russia, Iran and [Bashar] Assad are
demolishing Idlib and asking us to call it
peace.”

Alexander Lavrentiev, Russia’s envoy to
Syria,
rebutted such claims as overblown
because, he said, an offensive is not even
underway. A view supported by other
independent
reports.

Hysterical Haley doesn’t have any shame
lecturing others when her country’s air
force obliterated the Syrian city of Raqqa
last year, indiscriminately killing
thousands of civilians. The alleged purpose
of defeating terrorists wasn’t even a
success because it is believed many of them
ended up in Idlib, given safe passage by the
Americans.

What US forces – illegally present in
Syria – did in Raqqa was to simply destroy
more of the country’s infrastructure, as
they have done by blowing up bridges in
Eastern Syria. In that way, the US is on the
same side of the terrorists for the
objective of regime change against President
Assad.

The intervention of Russia, Iran, and
Hezbollah on the side of the Syrian Army is
a wholly different category from that of the
US and its NATO allies bombing Syria.
Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah are legally
mandated by request of the Syrian government
to help liberate the country from the
criminal US-led forces, both overt as in
warplanes, and covert in the form of the Al
Qaeda-linked terrorist brigades doing
Washington’s dirty work on the ground.

What is pathetic is the mealy-mouthed
duplicity of the United Nations. Its
leadership is indulging the charade of the
US and its allies of distorting the violence
in Syria as some kind of struggle between
government forces and “moderate rebels.”

Now that the “rebels” are seen
for what they are – at last, despite massive
Western media deception – the UN bureaucrats
are playing the “humanitarian card.”
Secretary General Guterres claims that for
Syria “there is no military solution.”
He wants Syria and Russia to call off their
offensive on Idlib. What for? To buy time in
order to give the terrorists an escape route
to some other country?

Would the UN honcho make such a
preposterous proposal to the United States
if, say, Oregon were somehow taken over by
illegally armed groups, ones that were
composed of foreign jihadists backed by
foreign governments?

Panning away from Syria, it is evident
that international security conditions are
heading for a potentially disastrous
breakdown, in particular between the US and
Russia. In this situation of lawlessness and
rogue state conduct, the United Nations is
appearing like the toothless, effete League
of Nations in the run-up to World War II.

What the world needs is the UN to fulfill
its role of upholding international law and
calling out criminal states. The US and its
NATO allies are the rogues in today’s world
without a doubt. What they have done, and
are doing, to Syria, covertly and overtly,
is a monumental violation of laws, morality
and truth.

There seems to be no point in engaging
with deluded liars. Syria, Russia, Iran, and
Hezbollah should proceed to liberate the
people of Idlib, put an end to the war, and
eradicate the terrorist disease that
Washington and its criminal cronies infected
the country with.

Finian Cunningham
has written extensively on international
affairs, with articles published in several
languages. He is a Master’s graduate in
Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a
scientific editor for the Royal Society of
Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before
pursuing a career in newspaper journalism.
He is also a musician and songwriter. For
nearly 20 years, he worked as an editor and
writer in major news media organisations,
including The Mirror, Irish Times and
Independent.

In accordance
with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material
is distributed without profit to those who have
expressed a prior interest in receiving the
included information for research and educational
purposes. Information Clearing House has no
affiliation whatsoever with the originator of
this article nor is Information ClearingHouse
endorsed or sponsored by the originator.)